Abstract:
Skin colour is often being used as a cue for face detection, recognition, tracking in videos and other skin-based biometrics. Over the years, there has been a lot of works done and is still on in skin detection for face detection and other video analytical purposes. Thus, there is a call for the availability of relevant information on discrimination features for human skin characterization; especially the black skin. Black people skin is very clumsy to detect because black peoples’ skin has so many colours, ranging from total black, red, yellow, orange and brown, unlike white peoples’ skin that is clustered around the white region. Thus, this paper aims at investigating two possibilities and presents some findings on the characterization of human skin and attempts to discriminate between gender and race based on skin tone. This is carried out using the histogram based explicit rules in the CrCb colour space models. The result shows that skin tone is not sufficient to discriminate between gender but is sufficient to discriminate between the black and white human race.
Keywords— Human-Skin, Characterization, Gender, Race, Colour-Space
